Swiss Medico-Social Humanitarian Foundation

Fair Future provides medical, social and educational aid and solutions where they are needed most. Since 2008, we have helped tens of thousands of people - by setting up innovative and unique medico-social programs - while talking about what we have seen and experienced on the ground.

We have long found that clean water is the cheapest medicine in the world. That's why we created the Water Connections program, which gives access to water to villages that do not have it.

Hello everyone,

It is from our Rumah Kambera Base Camp, East Sumba, that we are exceptionally writing to you so that we can immediately implement a vital project for an entire population, the majority of which are children.

A situation that is beyond comprehension as it is weighty on a medical and health level: As we have already said, East Sumba has been the poorest in Indonesia and Asia since last year. The region where child malnutrition and related mortality is highest.

Laindatang is a village without clean water, toilets, or sanitary facilities. Malaria, Dengue, Cholera, and Hepatitis A are present because of the hygienic conditions. It is a place of extreme poverty, so we categorize this action as RED.

Here, all the children and most of the adults are underweight and severely malnourished. Fair Future, therefore, wishes to act for these hundreds of people and give them access to clean and healthy water for their health.

People suffer from chronic respiratory and joint diseases and other illnesses related to drinking dirty water and lacking sanitation facilities.

The physically most robust families (those who have the strength to fetch water) have an average of two litres of non-edible water per day per person for everything: cooking, eating, drinking, bathing, bathing newborn babies, watering livestock, and going to the toilet. Therefore, you have to choose.

For all of us on the Fair Future medical teams, the fight against malaria, dengue and infectious diarrhoea also means having safe access to clean water, toilets and clean water storage tanks.

Giving them access to clean water means quickly ensuring them a healthy life, water for drinking, cooking, washing, and creating a garden. Being healthy, providing income, fewer tears, and children growing up surrounded by smiling parents.

To do this, we must drill deep -two months of drilling- and build two to three 6700-litre water tanks and healthy sanitary installations. All are powered by two 2mx1m solar panels and a big DC submersible pump. A project that will keep us busy for a period of three months on the site.

This Water Connections - Laindatang Site project will save lives, create "wealth", and ensure much better living conditions for these families, as explained above.

We believe - we have seen this for months - that if nothing is done, this village and this population will face an even greater disaster than it already is in terms of health.

Giving them access to clean water means quickly ensuring a healthy life, water for drinking, cooking, washing, and creating a garden. Being healthy, providing income, fewer tears, and children growing up surrounded by smiling parents.

The project is identical to all the other #waterconnections projects already carried out on the same model. This one is smaller but more complicated to achieve for logistical reasons.

1. Wherever we have implemented a project such as this one, we have seen considerable differences and changes in the lives of the villagers of these ultra-rural villages;
2. In a few weeks, we observed much less disease, decreased diarrhoea in children, less joint pain or skin problems, and much better health in general;
   
3. The icing on the cake for us is to see weight gain in children, much better hygiene, new energy to undertake things, the creation of gardens and the sale of vegetables;
4. And people are so happy!

Fair Future is seeking funding from Chf. 24'395.- for this project which is exceptional in its complexity, difficulty and vital urgency.

A sum that will save lives, create wealth and provide much better living conditions for everyone here.

If nothing is done, Laindatang and its population face an even greater disaster than it already is today regarding health.

Via this link, we invite you to read the. PDF version of this project -in French-which, which we carried out yesterday, March 8, 2023. This will give you more information on how you can help us provide them with health.

Our teams, made up of Kawan Gogon, Primus, Alex, Elthon, Annisa, Ino, Dul, Ady, Ayu, Atha and dozens of volunteers, are quite ready -given this situation-, to give more than three months of our time there, to help them.

It will be difficult and complicated, but we like this program. It gives meaning to life and all of our lives here.

Our other public health actions, which follow their course, such as the epidemic of Malaria, Dengue and the programs of access to primary medical care, the agenda of minor surgeries in the villages and other medical actions, absorb a lot of our resources. But for this project, it is URGENT to act.

We thank you very much for your kindness and generosity.

Sumba Timur, March 10, 2023 - Alex Wettstein - Founder and President of Fair Future Foundation.